Re: Comparing languages

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:20:25 GMT

Dmitri wrote:
>
> >From: Nathan Sanders
>
> >The persitence of linguistic urban legends like
> >"Eskimo has 100 words for snow" shows that the average person is often
> >unwilling and/or unable to critically evaluate a human language as
> >anything other than a vocabulary list.
>
> Exactly.......like the urban legend that esperanto is indoeuropean.

? Esperanto has Indo-European grammar and Indo-European vocabulary. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net